On October 27, 2015, the Center for Strategic and International Studies hosted an event titled Government-Sponsored Patent Pools: Addressing “Innovation Mercantilism.” A panel of experts discussed the emergence of this new entity and its policy implications. The...

Few things are as important for America’s future as an effective international economic policy. The United States urgently needs a comprehensive economic strategy toward the Asia-Pacific, a region that will do more to determine U.S. interests over coming decades than...

The global economy has slowly recovered from the financial crisis of 2008–2009. Since the crisis, however, economic prospects have been adversely affected by disappointing performance in global trade. The world economy experienced an extended period of rapid trade...

For the last 20 years, trade policy has been an issue that divides Democrats and unites Republicans. A majority of Republicans would get behind free trade’s benefits to open markets, while Democrats were often skeptical about the benefits of a...

On April 22, the Senate Finance Committee will begin marking up legislation sponsored by Senators Hatch (R-UT) and Wyden (D-OR) that would grant trade promotion authority (TPA) to the president, giving him the capacity to negotiate free trade agreements on Congress’s...

As the Trans-Pacific Partnership edges closer to completion, the debate over trade and investment policy is reaching a crescendo in Washington. Prominent in the debate is “investor-state dispute settlement” (ISDS), a mechanism used to resolve claims made by a trading...

Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) is a provision in Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) and other international investment agreements that allows investors to enter arbitration with states over treaty breaches. ISDS has become controversial in the United States and...

Opinion surveys demonstrate that a majority of Americans consider Asia the most important region to U.S. interests, and a majority of Asia experts support the Obama administration’s goal of a “pivot” or “rebalance” to the Asia-Pacific region....